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The future of banking from one source

The future of banking from a single source

Low interest rates, competition, digitalization and regulation all shape banking and create considerable turbulence in the banking industry. msg group has three key banking experts: msg for banking ag, msg Rethink Compliance and Finnova, all of whom have the expertise and experience required to help banks master the challenges of today, while preparing for those of tomorrow.

msg for Banking

msg for banking rethinks banking and offers our customers smart, innovative and platform-based digitized solutions from a single source. For more than 100 years, we have been supporting our customers in optimizing their business success and helping them to transform their business in line with constantly changing financial markets. As a market leader in bank management and regulatory reporting and a provider of high-quality consulting solutions, we are a reliable partner at our customers' side.

In the areas of Strategy & Business Models, Finance, Risk & Compliance, Capital Markets, Payments, Digital Transformation & IT and Financial Artificial Intelligence, we are ideally equipped to identify and evaluate upcoming challenges and implement them together with our customers. Solutions in the areas of digitalization and cloud are just as much a part of this as a solution for the overall bank management of the future.

ORRP - the Open Risk and Reporting Platform Architecture - is our answer to the consistent and transparent methods and processes in bank management required by European and national supervisory authorities. ORRP combines the technical added value of the solutions THINC (bank management) and BAIS (reporting) on one platform and thus enables the efficient linking of reporting and risk controlling, for example in the normative approach of ICAAP/ILAAP. In this form, ORRP is unique in Germany.

Finnova develops product-based front-to-back office solutions for banks. With their proprietary product, “Finnova Banking Software”, the Swiss company helps banks and BPO providers efficiently process their standard banking functions.

The consulting and technology company msg Rethink Compliance is a specialist in the area of Anti-Financial Crime and helps customers to implement their compliance strategies to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and corruption.

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This seminar provides you with a thorough overview of the most important topics in risk management and offers you the opportunity to discuss practical issues. With a strong focus on real-life scenarios, the models and methods presented are illustrated using a sample bank in the form of a case study, making the entire workflow from cash flow in individual transactions to equity utilisation easy to understand.

Focus: Contemporary leadership in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment At the 16th Leadership MeetUp, discuss how contemporary leadership provides guidance under growing pressure, creates motivation from the "why" and "what for" and empowers people to actively shape change. Our series of events for managers provides you with in-depth insights into key aspects of leadership and change in Germany's two largest banking groups - the savings banks and cooperative banks. Use this platform to share knowledge, learn from each other and take a valuable look at the bigger picture.

This basic seminar teaches you the technical processes as well as the installation and configuration of msg.ORRP/BAIS. The focus is on the technical processes for installing and operating the application.

As part of a live demo, you will get to know the EKKKSA performance level of our MARZIPAN solution and its contribution to taking into account the EBA guidelines on lending and monitoring (EBA/GL/2020/06). Using a calculation example, you will see directly in the software how the economic and regulatory capital costs are calculated in the contribution margin scheme in MARZIPAN and learn from our experts how the bottleneck principle of economic and regulatory capital can be taken into account in the preliminary calculation.

PAAR (in german: Prüfung Aufsichtlich Angemessener Risikovorsorge/Audit of supervisory risk provisioning) - a special type of special audit, which focuses on the assessment of the recoverability and prudentially appropriate risk provisioning of loan exposures - will become a supervisory audit focus in 2025/2026. At our impulse day, you will receive information on the audit approach, practical tips and a first-hand experience report from an institution audited in 2025.

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